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C GOOD WORD ON EGGS If you like fried eggs-fried scrambled or this Easter-this may interest you The high price of eggs will soon come tumbling down This Humpty- Humpty event will be brought about by the sale of five million cases of government nt eggs War Var Food administration responding responding respond respond- ing to the prodding of critics admits too many eggs in in that it was putting one basket for military and lend lend- lease leas requirements at the expense of civilian requirements Release of this tremendous quantity quantity quantity quan quan- of eggs wont won't alarm the housewife housewife housewife house house- wife but worries War Food experts because it might discourage production tion for next year Meantime War Var Food and OPA are rowing over the price to be paid for these five million cans of cold storage eggs WF A officials protecting protecting pro pro- protecting the producers want a higher price for cold storage eggs than fresh eggs OP OPA A thinking of the housewife says This is the first time we ever heard that eggs become more valuable valuable valuable able as they get older But War Var Food stands firm on on the principle that the old eggs should bring more money Their reason is that the old eggs were stored by dealers who were playing the usual seasonal game of holding for a rise in price without realizing that the government was going to step in inand inand inand and take over at the fixed price In other words War Food experts are trying to hand dealers some of the speculative profit they might have gotten while OP OPA trying OPA-trying trying to protect the consumer wants consumer wants to hold the price down The inside government egg debate is still raging e I COLD WINTER VINTER AHEAD Whatever you burn t js winter winter- oil or coal coal it it is still going to be cold II The public has the impression that it is only coal which is short now Actually oil is even shorter rations for this winter being based on a 34 per cent cut below war pre-war tion The fuel situation is so bad that OP OPA A experts several months ago recommended coupon rationing of oi coal A warm debate followed between between between be be- tween OP OPA A and the Solid Fuel Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Co Co- Co- Co in which Ickes supported by the coal industry opposed ration ration- ing But OP OPA A experts believed coal would be short this winter and during during during dur dur- ing the summer la laid d plans for coupon coupon coupon cou cou- pon rationing In August they v were yere ere all ready to go to press with millions of coupon books Finally however the coal coordinator coordinator coordinator co vetoed the plan Now it is too toolate toolate toolate late to impose coupon rationing rationing- partly because there is not sufficient time to print the coupons and give giveout giveout giveout out instructions to local boards also because some coal is already supposed supposed supposed sup sup- posed to be distributed inequitably distributed inequitably to to consumers Thus we shall have to rely on dealer rationing This does not nol limit consumption only consumption only strings out the supply in driblets making a greater delivery task without decreasing decreasing decreasing de de- de- de creasing consumption The public believes that oil is bountiful compared with coal and OP OPA A is now besieged with applications applications applications for from coal to oil These applications are being resisted resisted resisted re re- re- re since the impression of abundance abundance dance of oil is merely an illusion FEWER TIRES FOR ALLIES One thing not discussed at the Moscow conference was rubber tires If the question had been raised Russia would have been told that tires tires on Lend-Lease Lend will have to be reduced sharply Reason is that U. U S S. S trucks and buses are wearing their tires down to the fabric and J Jesse esse Jones' Jones long ballyhooed synthetic tires are falling falling fall fall- ing behind schedule There is plenty of new rubber but a dire la lag in tire production Meanwhile bus and truck transportation transportation trans trans- has never been more vital Last year inter-city inter buses carried f fore m more ore passengers than the railroads million compared with million mil mu- lion though they travelled fewer miles If they are crippled the weight would be thrown back on the already struggling railroads Also m many and places would be without transports tion since communities have no no- rail service ber The army OP OPA A and the rubber rubber rub rub- directors director's office are putting their heads together to find a wa way out One e s solution will be a reduction of ol tires shipped on Lend Lease Russia alone was promised this year delivered delivered in addition to 2 2000 00 00 alread already e ROUND MERRY Q l Washington is plagued with an exI excess ex- ex cess of I traffic lights One near the senate wing of the capitol is all the time green thus serving no pur pose except to confuse th the Gen public Q l Wild Bill Donovan drives a midget Standard car made in England It sells for new but the general b ought bought it for and ond hand 1000 second sec sec- Q CJ State department l learns earns that of t the most inns t one e. e distressing France shortages in needles is' is in or or ordinary li ary hOusehold I ry 1 |